Building a bridge between aprotic and protic ionic liquids
Arsalan Mirjafari, Lam N. Pham, John R. McCabe, Niloufar Mobarrez, E. Alan Salter, Andrzej Wierzbicki, Kevin N. West, Richard E. Sykora and James H. Davis
Excerpt: ILs of dications with linked protic and aprotic centres have been prepared. They have rich H-bonding and a Brønsted acid–base character like small DpKa protic ILs, but very low apparent vapour pressures, more akin to aprotic ILs.